For 18 1/2 minutes Sunday, John Oliver took “a serious proposal by a serious presidential candidate seriously” — Donald Trump’s 1,000-mile border wall with Mexico.
Then for 18 1/2 minutes, the host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” demolishes every Trump argument for the wall, its construction prospects and costs.
Trump has placed the price of the wall anywhere from $4 billion to $12 billion, Oliver showed through clips.
But Oliver finds that it will actually cost $25 billion, not counting maintenance costs and dealing with border laws.
Oliver proposed that instead the money be spent on waffle irons for every American — which “will cost less and do nearly as much to keep out immigrants and drugs, won’t harm our relationship with our third-largest trading partner. If it is racist, it’s only toward Belgians.
“So come on, America. Let’s ask ourselves: What kind of country do we want to wake up to? One that spends billions on an impossible, impractical symbol of fear, or one that smells like breakfast? Exactly.”
make america waffles again https://t.co/JxwUh0OU7H
— Matt Collette (@Matt_PC) March 21, 2016
I want John Oliver to do nothing but Trump stuff till November https://t.co/8sxIqFr1eZ #Trumpstuff
— Bunkie Perkins (@BunkiePerkins) March 21, 2016
John Oliver is a legend in the making! This clip annihilating Trump’s wall is hilarious, informative, and brilliant! https://t.co/evhAHpl4rD
— Abdullah Jefri (@a_jefri) March 21, 2016